Debs Arrest Sparks Guns and Grand Jury Action
Chicago report details Eugene V Debs and other American Railway Union leaders indicted by a federal grand jury in Cario, arrest followed, with bail set at 10000 each. The piece notes clashes in Ladd Illinois with deputies wounded and two mob fatalities as regulars intervene.
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Cariaco
Federal Grand Jury
United States
Grosscup
Eugene W Debs
American Railway Union
George Woeward
Sylvester Kelleher
I. W Rogers
FUR Pth Witte Feddenbeechte Uaw
Math
American Railway
James Merwin
Rock Island
Blue Island
Debs
Howard
Kelleher
Rogers
Milchrist
Banda
Rioters Ambush Deputies at Spring Valley
At Benniee Spring Valley a group of deputies was ambushed by rioters who opened fire. Four shots were fired, two hitting the deputy in the face. He returned fire, seriously injuring, possibly killing, one Italian assailant. Depredations are blamed on non English speaking men, and Bureau County remains in intense excitement.
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Benniee
Spring Valley
Bureau County
Train Derailed Near Sacramento in Strike Violence
Sacramento July 14. A railway wreck two and a half miles below the city killed four soldiers and injured several as strikers are accused of guerrilla tactics. Colonel Graham led 600 troops to Sacramento while a Japanese boy was killed by a militia rifle. The wreck is blamed on saboteurs. strikers deny direct involvement and condemn the act.
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Sacramento
Cala
United States Army
Graham
Saocramento
Southern Pacific
Oakland
Tne
Railrod Company
Samuel B. Clark
Byrne
Lubberding
Clark
Baumler
Wilson
Dugan
Enlis
Warlke
Wilder
Mare Island
Horthero California
San Francisco
Bay Five
Klazers
Harry Knox
American Railway Union
Davisville
Guuion
Governor Altgeld orders arms purchases for Illinois towns
Governor Altgeld directed Adjutant General Orendorff to buy 45 and 60 calibre guns and ship them to designated points as towns across Illinois faced threats to life. Chicago supplied rifles, with the war department loaning 600 rifles and Orendorff coordinating purchases of 2,000 more in New York.
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Chicago
Orendorff
Washington
Illinois
New York
OMINOUS WAR CLOUDS OVER RAIL STRIKE FALLOUT GROWS
The article reports growing tension as federal troops move toward Sacramento amid a threatened clash with striking American Railway unionists and allies. It notes troop redeployments from Presidio to Mare Island, increased railroad activity, and unionists’ readiness to resist clearance of yards.
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American Railway Union
Sacramento
Esterday
Presidio
Alameda
Colterabam
Astate
United States
Pole
Presido
Mare Island
Bencha Arsenal
Coompuey Bk Barat
Ocaonell
Bent Kathman
Escoortun Ether Bank
Charleston Mente Tes
Marion
Independence
Thetis
Nota
Oakland
Sacrament
Tube Works Strike Broken at National Tube
Pittsburg reports the National Tube works at McKeesport with about 6,000 employees has ended its strike. machinists and foundermen have returned to work. Pope's health not alarming with no health crisis to fear as the pope takes a garden stroll at the Vatican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
En Yous
Evening Post
Pittsburg
National Tube Works
McKeesport
Judge Woolson Punishes Man for Contempt and Assault
In Keokan Fortison district court Judge Woolson sentenced Edward Burkhbalder to thirty days for assaulting H. Mason, a switchman from Sante Be. The case notes a striker’s place held by men including Burkhbalder and Mason.
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Woolson
Keoken
Edward EK
Burkhbalder
Sante Be Switchman
Fortison
H. ¥. Mason
M Ore
Strikes Spread Across Chicago Area Labor Action Shrugs
Reports say up to 9800 workers across several trades began withholding labor in Chicago including painters woodworkers planing mill hands and carriage makers with further molders expected to join. Rail traffic resumes normal after Debs papers are returned unopened under court order. Local mayors commented as strikes unfold.
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Curae
Sovereign
Thes
Debs
Hopkin
Plogree
Letters on Mattoon marshal role stir Illinois strike
In Springfield on July 12 Senator LD Craig of Mattoon and US Marshal Brinton exchanged letters over marshals in Mattoon. Brinton, acting under court orders, warned of jail for freight interference while Burroughs said freights moved. A large quiet crowd and reports of trains moving amid Wabash strike talks.
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United States
Springfield
Tle
LD. Craig
Mattoon
Brinton
Craig
Illinois
Burroughs
Caitlin
Mount Vernon
Wabash
J .B. Barnes
Wabash Railway
Alaanemaars
Chiraen
Decatur
Anerson
Chicago
St. Louis
Burial of Italian Coroner's Jury Demands Probe
Spring Valley Island July 12 An Italian killed by U S troops funeral drew about 8000 mourners many swearing vengeance on the troops A coroner's jury condemned the shooting as unwarranted and urged investigation The town is guarded by troops and outside miners were sent home after ceremonies An Associated Press check found no raids planned At Ladd deputies and constables searched miners homes recovering nearly five wagon loads of goods and making thirteen arrests Most detainees were foreigners and were taken to the county seat for safety
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Spring VaLley
United States
Mintra
Associated Press
Ladd
Cox
Minera
Train Derails After Tampered Switch At Terre Haute
A derailed Evansville and Terre Haute passenger engine followed an open switch at Tenth and Main. Investigation found the switch tampered to trap the train. a crowd of hoodlums stoned coal handlers. Deputies moved the train but faced resistance. further trouble was feared as events unfolded across multiple towns.
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Havre
Ind
Evansville
Terre Haute
Tenth
Main Streets
Arud
Chicago
Illinois
United States
Ianac Keeley
Cloton
Lation
Clioton
Keeley
Latest by wire Prendergast to hang tomorrow
Governor Altgeld refuses to interfere in the Assassin's Behalf Wiman secures stay of senience Minnesota Republicans renominate Gov Nelson Specials to the Moline Dispatch. Chicago July 12 The expert butchers at the stock yards went out this morning disrupting packing house work. Trains moving Chicago July 12 reports calm. trains on schedule. Chicago July 13 big strike did not materialize with few workers leaving.
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Altgeld
Wiman
Minnesota
Rkepublicans
Nelson
Moline Dispatch
Cuhicago
Pendergast to Hang as Gov Refuses Intervention
Springfield reports Gov Altgeld will not intervene in the Pendergast case and a hang order is set for tomorrow. The day also notes a certificate of reasonable doubt for Erastus Wiman in a separate matter, staying his sentence. Minnesota Republicans convened in St Paul and named Knute Nelson as Governor and D M Clough as lieutenant governor in their ticket.
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New York City
Justice Bassett
Erastus Wiman
Wiman
St Paul
Labor moralists and mayors push arbitration in strike
A mass meeting at the Auditorium followed a large parade. Labor leaders denounced Pullman while Mayor Plagree urged compulsory arbitration and proposed making it part of the federal constitution. Telgrams from fifty city mayors reported 90 percent favor arbitration as the solution. A resolution urged Congress to submit the amendment.
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Derborr
Pullman
Plagree
Congress
Arbitration Call Amid Civil Unrest in Sime
July 11 report from Sime for Arbitration Gone By cites Detroit Mayor Hall replying to Detroit Mayor Pingree via telegraph. Hall declines to arbitrate with Pullman strikers, opposing talks with those defying laws and orders and risking lives and property while supporting the government.
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Sime
Bace
Ark
Pingree
Detroit
Hall
George M Pullman
Labor meetings in Cincinnati support strike and arbitrate debate
Cincinnati July 11 crowds fill Music Hall for trades unions sympathy strike and an overflow gathering. Resolutions back the strike and fault Cleveland while Rev J W Magruder praises arbitration and condemns sympathy strikes as worse than the evil. Worcester order favors arbitration but is rejected party line. Sanders weddings note in Leavenworth with Etta Ball, age 21, elopement amid family opposition.
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Cincinnati
Trades’ Unions
Music Hall
Cleveland
J W. Magruder
Wesley Chapel
Hoe
Woncester
Mass
Leavesworth
John Sherman Sandera
Etta Ball
J M. Ball
Sandera
Sabe
Sanders
Palmer is found guilty on three charges by Pittsburg presbytery
Palmer, previously tried before the Pittsburg presbytery, is found guilty of three charges including obtaining a divorce by false representations and marrying a second woman before divorce. He is suspended from the pulpit until he shows repentance. LASALLE freight wreck injures nineteen cars when track spikes are drawn out.
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Pittsavga
Palmer
Pittsburg
Frightful Disaster on the Deep
The passenger steamer Vladimir from Sebastopol to this port collided with an Italian steamship near Eupatoria. The Vladimir sank with about sixty lives feared lost as some passengers were saved. Blockade Broken at Frankfort End. Clover Leaf railroad reports trains running on time and crews filled as strikers yield, with new workers replacing A B U men.
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Opessa
Vladimir
Sebastopol
Eupatoria
Aousia
Frankfort
Ind
Clover Leaf Railroad
A.B. U
Advances in Prices of Cereals and Grain Markets
Bradstreets notes sharp trade restriction due to railway troubles west of the Alleghanies. Wheat shows little East improvement while pork lard fruits vegetables and perishables rise. World wheat supply July 1 stands at 164 310 000 bushels with visible supplies tightened by export demand and speculation.
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Pittsburg
New York
Pacific Coast
Haa
General Industrial
Fm Weol
Boston
New England
Hoston
Rida Teland
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Lake
United States
Canada
Europe
Remarkable trepanning case of Eugene Spooner
A boy 83, son of Fovalward Spooner, underwent successful trepanning by Drs Hastead and Pigall after a fall that crushed his frontal bone. The skull was opened, brain exposed, arteries tied, and the patient recovered from a two day stupor, now playing a week later. Three young ladies killed by a train near Levers. Nicaragua canal bill may pass with changes, Senator Davis objections addressed. Kelly and his commonwealthers stranded at Moura's Landing, destitute and foraging on farms after towboat Connelly left them to marshals.
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Cutcaco
Eugene Spooner
Fo Balward Spooner
Jackson
Oper Tiree
Petient
Vandering
Kelly
Moura's Landing
Connelly
Cincinnati
United States
Debs Arrest Sought by Grand Jury After Denver Warrant
Denver sources say if Chicago grand jury does not arrest Debs a United States court in Denver will issue a warrant for violating the constitution by forging impairment of contracts. Telegraphers in New Mexico vote to disband Division No. 283 and stand by the A R U. Raton workers report most Santa Fe employees still out.
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Grand Jury
Debs
Grand
EL M. Mulford
Western Union Telegraph Company
United States
Grosscup
American Railway Union
Russia
Acxar
Astatoe
Acta
Delia
Bia
Boyne
Denver
United States District Attorney's Office
Chicago
United States Court
A. RB
U. Raton
N M
Order of Railway Telegraphers
New Mexico
A. R
Santa Ise
Jury Unable to Reach Verdict in French Murder Trial
After forty eight hours of deliberation the Ashland Wisconsin jury informed Judge Parish they could not agree and were discharged. The case has cost Ashland county $0,000 but a third trial will be held.
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Minneapolis
Ashland
Wis
Parish
Ashland County
Vast blaze destroys White City buildings in Cuba
A fire raged through the White City grounds at Cuba on July 7 destroying the Terminal Station and administration structures along with Mines and Mining, Electricity, Manufactures, and other pavilions. One man, David Anderson, was killed and another, E J Bassett, severely injured when a subway collapse amid flames trapped them.
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Cuabaco
Philadelphia
Tha Unlamhinmies
David Anderson
Forty-seventh Street
Evans Avenue
E. J Bassett
Starr Avenue
Marshall Field & Co
Anderson
Bassett
H Palachbek
Schiller Building
Hasett
Treasury shipments halted as express firms refuse cash west of Ohio
Treasury officials halt all cash shipments to points west of the Ohio river due to strikes and riots. Express companies, citing contract terms, refuse liability for losses and will not accept cash for transit to Kentucky Tennessee Mississippi or Louisiana. Chicago treasurer notes funds on hand and expects to arrange bank help until the unrest ends. Express firms ordered to return in transit cash at government expense.
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Treasury
Ohio River
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisa da
Chicago
Senator Hill Downplays Tumor Rumors and Caucus Exclusion
July reports place Senator David B. Hill at a law office where he dodges questions about a Washington tumor rumor and party caucus exclusion. He deflects, reiterating no new comment on the income tax and indicating little concern over the alleged move. He plans to stay in the city through next week.
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David B. Hill
Washington
Hill
Senator Hill
Tariff in the House amid senate amendments dispute
The ways and means committee orders the tariff bill reported back with nonconcurrence in senate amendments and conferees. Speaker Crisp named as house conferee along with Wilson McMillin Turner Montgomery Reed Borrows Payne to negotiate terms amid GOP protests. In New Haven, Judge Prentiss annuls Charles R Pratt and Gertrude Hall marriage citing Pratt's intoxication at the ceremony.
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Washington
Gross
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Wilson
Crisp
Reed
West Virginia
McMillin
Tennessee
Turner
Georgia
Montgomery
Kentucky
Democrate
Maine
Borrows
Michigan
Payne
New York
Young Pratt
New Haven
Conn
Prentiss
Charles R. Pratt
Gertrude Hall
Pratts
Pratt
Plunjan Town Destroyed as Fire Drives 2000 Homeless
July 11 report from PETgRspURU states Plunjan was burned to the ground with 375 horses destroyed and over 2,000 people left without shelter. Children and cattle were affected by the blaze and its aftermath.
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Petgrspuru
Plunjan
Honsea
Lactated Food Advised To Combat Summer Infant Deaths
The piece urges lactated food to prevent cholera infantum and summer illness in infants. It cites medical authoritiesGuernsey Agnew and J Lewis Smithendorsing the diet as close to a mother’s milk, aiding weight gain and blood nourishment. Mr and Mrs Soutar of Sandusky share relief after using lactated food for Ruth.
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Ruth
Sahe
Guernsey
The
New York Medical Times
Agnew
J. Lewis Smith
Bellevue Hospital College
New York
New England
Boston Journal
Charles Soutar
Campbell Street
Sandusky
Ohio
Gold and Silver Dems Face Great Financial Debate
The Missouri Democrats propose to settle the gold and silver issue using a tariff reform style method. The piece criticizes the party for unreliability and vows to retire the Democrats in favor of a patriotic organization to manage government affairs. It condemns repeated pledges and calls for the term democracy to be buried.
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Missouri
Congress
Democratic Party
Patriotia
Capehluf
Democracy
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Kureau County
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Powell
Gnarling & Daassenger
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Danville
Iis
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Mudera
Millitta
Union Pacific
Omaha
Neb
Federated Board of
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Dickinson
Monroe
Paris
West Beund
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Louis
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Bleayo Railway Union
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Pope
Vatican
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Réskine M.phelpa
Cbicago
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Pullman Company
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Northern Pacific Engineers
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Fort Wayne
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Erie Railway
Pendergast
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Lasalle
Ula
Utica
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Stock Island Railway
Ladiee
Ovator
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Lena Breyfogle
Breyfogle
Mia Carroll
Levers
Lenexa
Kansas City
Fort Beett
Ménphiis
Nicaragua
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Committee On Foreign Relations
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